Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2018
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 3, 2018, 9:46 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2018, 9:46 AM CST (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2018, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
284 WHUS44 KCRP 031546 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 946 AM CST Sat Mar 3 2018 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY... .Sustained moderate east winds will combine with high period swells and a recent full moon to result in a high risk of rip currents through this evening. Winds will diminish and become more from the southeast later tonight, which should lower the rip current risk to moderate levels. TXZ242-243-245-247-040200- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0001.180303T1546Z-180304T0600Z/ Kleberg-Nueces-Aransas-Calhoun- 946 AM CST Sat Mar 3 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through this evening for gulf-facing beaches of Kleberg, Nueces, Aransas and Calhoun Counties. * TIMING...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Strong and potentially life threatening rip currents are expected along gulf-facing beaches. This rip currents can be hazardous to even experienced swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ GW
1 follow-up statement
135 WHUS44 KCRP 040227 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 827 PM CST Sat Mar 3 2018 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS EVENING... .Sustained moderate east winds will combine with high period swells and a recent full moon to result in a high risk of rip currents through the rest of this evening. Winds will diminish and become more from the southeast after midnight, which should lower the rip current risk to moderate levels. TXZ242-243-245-247-040600- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-180304T0600Z/ Kleberg-Nueces-Aransas-Calhoun- 827 PM CST Sat Mar 3 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... * TIMING...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Strong and potentially life threatening rip currents are expected along gulf-facing beaches. This rip currents can be hazardous to even experienced swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TMT/GW
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.